Michigan Begins Heritage Hog Slaughter

Reader Contribution by Robin Mather
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Despite its assertion that it would not do so, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has begun conducting armed raids on heritage hog farmers, the first two over the weekend of April 14-16.

Dave Tuxbury of Deer Tracks Ranch killed all of his hogs on April 14 so that the DNR, which had served a search warrant, would not charge him as a felon. “It took 12 guys four times in there to kill all of them,” Tuxbury wrote Monday in an email. “Sows with young, pregnant sows, dozens of piglets and old mature boars.

Does anyone know what it feels like to open fire on 20 baby piglets in one group? They (DNR agents) commented to everyone that

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